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    Publisher Correction: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

    P. A. Butler, L. P. Gaffney, P. Spagnoletti, J. Konki, M. Scheck in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Addendum: The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

    P. A. Butler, L. P. Gaffney, P. Spagnoletti, J. Konki, M. Scheck in Nature Communications (2020)

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    The observation of vibrating pear-shapes in radon nuclei

    There is a large body of evidence that atomic nuclei can undergo octupole distortion and assume the shape of a pear. This phenomenon is important for measurements of electric-dipole moments of atoms, which wou...

    P. A. Butler, L. P. Gaffney, P. Spagnoletti, J. Konki, M. Scheck in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Measurement of the first ionization potential of astatine by laser ionization spectroscopy

    The radioactive element astatine exists only in trace amounts in nature. Its properties can therefore only be explored by study of the minute quantities of artificially produced isotopes or by performing theor...

    S. Rothe, A. N. Andreyev, S. Antalic, A. Borschevsky, L. Capponi in Nature Communications (2013)

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    Studies of pear-shaped nuclei using accelerated radioactive beams

    There is strong circumstantial evidence that certain heavy, unstable atomic nuclei are ‘octupole deformed’, that is, distorted into a pear shape. This contrasts with the more prevalent rugby-ball shape of nucl...

    L. P. Gaffney, P. A. Butler, M. Scheck, A. B. Hayes, F. Wenander, M. Albers in Nature (2013)